Findings from Parks Associates’ OTT Video Market Tracker service indicate that Netflix, WWE Network, and Hulu have the highest Net Promoter Scores among major OTT video services in the US. The international research firm notes that adoption of OTT video subscriptions has increased by 12 per cent since Q3 2014, with the number of available […]
All viewers who use the iPlayer to watch any BBC programmes must now be covered by a TV licence after new rules came into force. Previously, iPlayer users only needed a licence if they were using the service to watch live broadcasts. That meant it was legal to watch programmes after broadcast on catch-up without […]
BBC Three’s contemporary British drama Thirteen is the most requested show on BBC iPlayer in 2016 with 3 million requests. The five-part drama from new writer Marnie Dickens is ahead of England v Wales at Euro 2016 which had 2.8 million requests. To date in 2016, BBC Three has seven of the top 20 most […]
BBC Sport’s coverage of the Olympics Games in Rio reached 102.3 million unique global browsers, with 68.3 million coming from the UK, the biggest ever success for BBC Sport’s digital service. Across the BBC Sport website, app, Red Button+ on connected TVs, BBC Sport 360 and BBC iPlayer, record numbers engaged with the BBC’s coverage […]
On September 1st, users of BBC’s on-demand service, iPlayer, will no longer be legally allowed to access it without a TV licence, currently paid for by some 26 million households. According to findings from research firm Ampere Analysis, this will deprive them of access to nearly 4,000 hours of on-demand content, around 75 per cent […]
The start of the UK academic year will bring many changes for students, including, for the first time, the need to be covered by a TV Licence to download or watch BBC programmes on demand on iPlayer. A change in the law means as of September 1st, a licence will be needed to download or […]
BBC iPlayer saw an excellent start to the summer with 290 million requests across TV and radio in June, driven by major events in the sporting calendar including Wimbledon and the Euro 2016 football tournament. This was an increase of 6 per cent on May, and higher than June 2015 by 39 million requests. TV […]
They may only be little people, but kids – and particularly young kids – have a huge impact on in-home entertainment decisions. Across Europe and the US, their presence in a household means more non-linear TV, SVoD, apps and streaming sites are viewed, and more ‘baby-sitting electronics’ are owned. In this latest research, produced exclusively […]
UK commercial public service broadcaster Channel 5 is to launch My5, a free-to-air TV channel in early August, broadcasting the best content from the breadth of the Channel 5 family. The My5 channel will replace Channel 5+24, taking content from Channel 5’s VoD service of the same name, as well as broadcasting programming from across […]
Content delivery specialist Limelight Networks has confirmed that UK public service broadcaster Channel 4 has chosen the Limelight Orchestrate Content Delivery platform to deliver its programming to viewers on demand. “Channel 4 is known as an innovative trailblazer at the forefront of delivering our programmes to our viewers across the UK who prefer to watch […]